Those of you living in the UK may have noticed that Virgin Media has recently taken over Blueyonder and is going on an all on assault to become the ultimate media provider in the UK.
Virgin has launched a quadplay package with internet, digital TV, broadband and mobile phone in one subscription, which includes access to virgin’s on-demand IPTV channel, Virgin Central.
Virgin is giving NewsCorp’s BSkyB, the leading TV subscription service in the UK, a good run for its money.
In fact Virgin placed a wasp so far up BSkyB’s ass that BSkyB pulled its Sky channels from the Virgin Media package.
Virgin signs up NarrowStep
Putting Virgin’s and Sky’s squabbles aside Virgin has chosen to use NarrowStep as the platform for its online video destinations.
A few days ago I noticed that Virgin had its little web TV channels up, and that the old Blueyonder ones had stopped working.
The channels are using the instantly recognizable NarrowStep platform, which I actually dislike as it is not the most user friendly platform I have seen.
